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Animal rights activists win campaign to rehouse India's suffering elephants
Mumbai :: India | 9 days ago
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Now the activists — and the animals — have cause to celebrate, after officials ruled that all of the elephants living in the country’s dingy zoos and dismal circuses must be moved to newly established “elephant camps” deep in the countryside. The move,...
Tags: Indian Institute of Science, rights activists, Peta, India, Mumbai, Central Zoo Authority of India, In Defense of Animals, Mysore Zoo, Environment, Elephants, Zoo, Mahout, Human Interest
Russian rights activists threatened with eviction
Moscow :: Russia | 12 days ago
Credibility Two of Russia's most respected human rights activists say Moscow City Hall is trying to evict their organizations. Lyudmila Alexeyeva and Lev Ponomaryov say City Hall has appealed to an arbitration court to force their NGOs out. Both said Monday the move...
Tags: activists say, rights activists, Russia, Moscow, Lev Ponomaryov, Moscow Helsinki Group, Ponomaryov, Alexeyev, Politics, Moscow Helsinki Watch Group, Soviet dissidents, Lyudmila Alexeyeva, Social Issues, Law Crime
Gay-rights activists renew call for independent inquiry
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 20 days ago
Credibility Gay-rights activists have renewed their call for an independent investigation into a controversial bar check at the Rainbow Lounge, outraged that Fort Worth police and the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission have concluded that no excessive force was...
Tags: gay bar, Fort Worth, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, rights activists
Kidnapped lawyer released
Hyderabad :: India | 28 days ago
Credibility A lawyer, Amarchand Bheel, who was kidnapped allegedly by henchmen of an influential landlord was released after 34 days of captivity. Amarchand Bheel himself told this to media while addressing a news conference here on Wednesday. He was accompanied...
Kazakhstan: Rights Activist’s Manslaughter Trial Opens amid Intense International Scrutiny
Astana :: Kazakhstan | 2 months ago
Credibility One of Kazakhstans most prominent human rights activists went on trial September 2, charged with causing death by dangerous driving. The trial has cast a spotlight on Kazakhstans judicial system...Yevgeniy Zhovtis, director of the Kazakhstan International...
Tags: Kazakhstan, rights activists, human rights
EU speaks out on Chechnya murders
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
Credibility The Swedish EU presidency has urged Russia to protect its NGO community after a string of killings of human rights activists in Chechnya. The EU statement comes after the bodies of Alik Dzhabrailov and his wife Zarema Sadulayeva, who worked for the children's...
Tags: human rights, Chechnya, Grozny, rights activists, Russia, Alik Dzhabrailov, Swedish EU, end impunity, capital grozny, Zarema Sadulayeva
PETA Protests Live Pig Use At Camp Pendleton
Baghdad :: Iraq | 3 months ago
Credibility Kathy Guillermo said in a statement. "The animals -- and our soldiers -- deserve better." Protesters carried signs that read "Support Our Troops: Reject Animal Tests" and "Camp Pendleton: Stop Torturing Animals." According to news accounts, the pigs...
Tags: Camp Pendleton, live pig, rights activists
Activist, husband found dead in Chechnya
Moscow :: Russia | 3 months ago
Credibility Unidentified armed men abducted the head of Let's Save the Generation, Zarema Sadulayeva, and her husband from the offices of the young people's NGO on Monday afternoon (local time), Mr Cherkasov said. The Interfax news agency quoted interior ministry...
Tags: Chechnya, Zarema Sadulayeva, Alik Dzhabrailov, Russian, Grozny, human rights, shot dead, rights activists, aid worker, capital grozny
Russian rights activist murdered, colleague claims
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
Credibility One colleague said he suspected the prisoners' rights advocate was murdered. The news of Andrei Kulagin's death comes a week after the abduction and murder of Natalya Estemirova, a well-respected Chechen human rights activist. Kulagin was the branch head...
Tags: human rights, Natalya Estemirova, Andrei Kulagin, rights activists
Slain activist faced pressure from Chechen leader
Moscow :: Russia | 4 months ago
Credibility Rights activists have laid Estemirova's death at the doorstep of the Kremlin-backed Kadyrov, whose security forces they accuse of the abduction, torture and murder of suspected insurgents and their relatives. They said Kadyrov's rule had created a climate...
Tags: Natalya Estemirova, Russian, US-Russia, Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya, rights activists, chechen leaders, Grozny, Moscow Helsinki Group, rights group
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